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Pickford on England records, World Cup dream & love of motocrossPublished1 November 2025The Football Interview is a new series in which the biggest names in sport and entertainment join host Kelly Somers for bold and in-depth conversations about the nation’s favourite sport.We’ll explore mindset and motivation, and talk about defining moments, career highs and personal reflections. The Football Interview brings you the person behind the player.Interviews will drop on Saturdays across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website. This week it will be shown on BBC One at 23:55 GMT (and after Sportscene in Scotland).———————————————————Jordan Pickford is Everton and England’s number one and, fresh from signing a new contract at the Toffees, it will be something he hopes to remain for years to come.The 31-year-old started his career at his boyhood club Sunderland and had spells on loan at several lower-league clubs before making the move to Merseyside in 2017.Since then Pickford has only gone from strength to strength, making more than 300 appearances for Everton and has won their player of the year award four times, including the past three seasons.More recently, he set a new England record for consecutive clean sheets, which he extended to nine matches after the win against Latvia earlier in October.Before Monday’s return to Sunderland in the Premier League, Pickford sat down with Kelly Somers to talk about his childhood, taking his son to football training and a love of motocross.To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedMedia caption,’I’m praying I get a good reception’ – Pickford awaits Stadium of Light returnKelly Somers:Let’s start with football, what does it mean to you?Jordan Pickford:It is all I know really. As a young kid I played since I was five years old, so I grew up being a football fan and I had the opportunity to be a footballer which is every kid’s dream. There are only so many people who can achieve that dream so it is a massive honour really and I take a lot of pride that I became a footballer.Kelly:Did you always think you would be a goalkeeper?Jordan:I was always in goal, my first memory was being in goal. I remember playing with my brother and his mates in the street and I was in the goal on the concrete. When my brother was playing for the district at the time there was a team training who needed a goalkeeper so I went in goal and that was pretty much the start of me.Kelly:A goalkeeper playing on concrete as well?Jordan:I’m daft aren’t I?Kelly:Who was your childhood idol?Jordan:When I was watching football it was Kevin Phillips and Thomas Sorensen at Sunderland when I was young, but when I got older it was Wazza [Wayne Rooney] and Joe Hart.Kelly:So you always had the attacking player you liked but the goalkeeper too?Jordan:Wazza is a legend isn’t he? I was a bit too young for Gazza [Paul Gascoigne].Kelly:What was it like when you first joined Sunderland, because you were …
Published: 2025-11-01T06:13:56
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